The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-14
LONDON GOSSIP.
A Pleasant Place for Coiored People
The Negroes Advantage.

ave ambitious ioI dNNpcldilOn with White
people and to escape the social inferioritv Of
shejr position in the Unitod States. should
emigrate to England in this country.
;here does not appear tu be any prejudice
against the colored brother. In fact there
appears TO be prejudice in his favor
There are not many negroes in England in
1roportion TO the whites, but those who are
here appear to be specially delighted with
their situations. The negroes in England
have free intercourse and companionship
with the whites of corresponding and
even superior grade of intelligence and
education. | have seen any num-
Der of negro men ont walking or riding
with white women, well dressed. respectable
and intelligent looking, It is also common
enough to see negro women attended by
clean cut, good-looking Englishmen. If the
negro woman does not have a white attend
ant it is because she prefers one of her own
race. | have seen number of negro men
and women in England, but l have invaria-
bly, seen them in company with whites. l
do not remember having seen negro men
or women in company Having nearly the
entire white population of England to pick
and choose from, they have naturally shown
dissemination against their own color The
only noticeable prejudice, therefore, in Eng
land against the negro comes from the
negroes themselves. Last Sunday, going
% to Kew, there came on board the little
steamer at the Chelsea pier o far-complex-
toned, blue-eyed blonde Her color was
clear and her manner that of a neat house
maid or upper servant She was dressed in
black, with a small black astrachan fur cap
fattened down upon her yellow hair She
was in the company of the meaneSt-looking
negro specimen have ever seen. He was
small, lean and almost weakened. He was
nndersiZed and shabby He bad the I'M
wholesome color of the offspring of a very
low specimen OF white trash united with a
degraded mulattress. He was a most mon
grel representative of bleached- out, de-
generate branch of the negro family His
ewes We're small, catty and yellowish
through his faded fmrtive black pupils.
His teeth were dirty, broken
and decayed. His scanty, ragged
beard partly concealed his unwholsome-
looking face. A thick name, which was
neither wool nor hair, but a dirty black
mass somewhere between the two, stood out
from his small head under low crowned
soft hat. This degenerate specimen of hui
manitv was looked up to by this freSh-faced.
neatly dressed English maid as if he were a
person of superior rank and position As
they sat down upon the side of the rail her
negro companion passed his lean, yellow
nailed hand round her waist under her cloak
and gazed up into her clean-lOoking face
with an expression of leering satisfaction.
Such spectacle in public conveyance in
the Southern regions would undoubtedly
have led to their both being pitched over
board. As it was, no one but a small group
of Americans on board the vessel appeared
to notice this strange companionship.
have been living this summer in what
are called in London residential fats. near
HYDE Park. There are several porters en-
ployed about these fats. One of them is a
New York negro who acquired his edu-
cation and knowledge of mankind as
porter in Pullman car and afterward in
one of the New York hotels. He wears a
double breasted, brass buttoned blue frock
livery with round, fiat-tOp cap, which has
a square visor He is a most imposing indi-
vidual. He has the soft melodious voice of
the best type of his race. He is a clean,
manipulating fellow. He is the hero of all
cooks and housenlaids of the entire flats
This porter is on duty at night. He always
moves about escorted by several admir-
Ing white servant girls. He hardly ever has
less than six in his company. They stand
in the most admiring positions. No Bun
thorne was ever surrounded by more COM
plete pastures of alteration. But this porter
takes all this admiration gravely. He evil
IDENTIFY has very poor opinion of white
People who run after negroes He permits
the servant girls to run after him, but not
much more. All of the girls speak to him
with the prefix of "Mr." before his name.
None of the white porterS are honored in
this way. They are all called by their first
names, although two or three of them are
men advanced IN life and the heads of large
families The coored porter is always Mr..
Brooks. One of the tidiest of these servant
girls, born and reared in the COUNTRY, and
who has not yet lost the fresh color &C
1uired in her farm life, expressed the other
day a fervent desire that when she had
husband she hoped he would be just such
hce black man as Mr.. Brooks.
Coming out of Paddingtou station the
other morning / saw a fOur-wheeled cab
drive up with rattle and crash. It's top
was covered with trunks, bags and boxes.
six fresh faced railroad pOrterS stood in
line to receive this splendid array of bag
gage. The door of the cab opened. and out
stepped regular-featured wholesome, alert,
ective-looking man i'll clerical dress.
Whether "A member of the English or the
Catholic church was not apparent from his
dress. Both wear the soft black hat so pop
uar with us in the West and the regulation
black frock-cut uniform, with white
tie at the throat. After him came
tall, lithe-figured negro girl, dressed
IN all the hues of the rainbow
A great yellow be-ribboned hat perched
upon the top OF her tightly twisted and
Cf1nRled halr. she was about thIee-QIlar-
ters black. Tones of yellow shone in the
high lights upon her dusky face She was
about Is. | supposed she was a servant
girl There followed directly after her
another negro woman, also gayly dressed
and about the same shade of color and after
her came still another a little blacker,
shorter, stouter and evidently the chaperone
of the party. 1t was clear that they were
not Sisters Of Charity. They were too
gayly dressed for that They stood about
perfectly at their ease, and appeared to
regard the clergyman who was with
them as a person whose only occupa-
ton in life was to look after them. 1t was
he who took charge of all the baggage and
who purchased all of the tickets, and who
kept running to them with polite sugges-
tons for their comfort and convenience, and
when it was time for the train it was the
youngest, the one who wore the yellow
rlbboned hat perched high upon her head,
who took his arm, and with a real cake
walk swagger marched to a first-class com
partment followed Joy her dusky com
panions This compartment was specially
reserved, and when the train pulled out the
priest sat facing his thIte cOlored fairies,
listening with rapture and attention to their
lively remarks and gleeful giggles, which
occasionally broke into real darkey
laughter.
Viewing the utter absence OF prejudice
against colored people in England do not
think better advice could be given TO col
ored people who are ambitious than TO come